Facebook verdict due ‘in days’

÷ FACEBOOK is days away from receiving the final ruling in a German probe into how the social network scoops up data of its users, two people familiar with the issue said.

The Federal Cartel Office may issue the ruling as early as this week, said the sources. The regulator will order Facebook to change its contracts to stop making users agree to the data collection in question, one source said. Facebook said that it disagrees with the “conflation of data protection laws and antitrust laws”, and will continue to defend its position.